What is the You Tube Number Station?
May 10, 2014 6:56 PM Subscribe
Spy messages? Or just another public challenge?
"The YouTube channel for the user "Webdriver Torso" contains over 77,000 videos, each 11 seconds in length, with a series of one second pitches, each accompanied by a frame containing nothing but one blue and one red rectangle on a white background. No one seems to have any idea where this channel came from, who the user is, or what the purpose of the videos might be."
Has anyone before me utilized their resources and asked the hive mind about this?
"The YouTube channel for the user "Webdriver Torso" contains over 77,000 videos, each 11 seconds in length, with a series of one second pitches, each accompanied by a frame containing nothing but one blue and one red rectangle on a white background. No one seems to have any idea where this channel came from, who the user is, or what the purpose of the videos might be."
Has anyone before me utilized their resources and asked the hive mind about this?
Slater, did you read the UPDATE at the end of that article?
posted by effbot at 7:58 PM on May 10, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by effbot at 7:58 PM on May 10, 2014 [1 favorite]
"Webdriver Torso" Mystery Solved
SPOILER: It's an automated Google video quality testing account.
posted by Rhaomi at 2:21 PM on June 12, 2014
SPOILER: It's an automated Google video quality testing account.
posted by Rhaomi at 2:21 PM on June 12, 2014
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